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pigeon English

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pigeon English: see pidgin pidgin , a lingua franca that is not the mother tongue of anyone using it and that has a simplified grammar and a restricted, often polyglot vocabulary. The earliest documented pidgin is the Lingua Franca (or Sabir) that developed among merchants and traders in the
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Swans boss Paulo Sousa is still to see one of his attackers net in five opening Championship matches and in pigeon English the ex-QPR chief explained: "In Portugal we drive on the right.
Iam aware of the vastly multi-cultural society that we live in, but I was not aware of a language invented for every culture and all mixed into one based on bad pigeon English.
`MY priest was my spiritual father, I was more or less adopted by him,'' she explains, her quiet voice still bearing the pigeon English of her homeland.
 
 
 
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